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The downturn is likely to hit in the fourth quarter of 2008 after going
largely unnoticed in the first half of the year, IDC claimed. The UK, Ireland
and Spain is the most likely to feel pain, due to the continued deterioration of
the housing market and GDP growth.

IDC also predicted that consulting and project engagement will be the most
affected by the crisis, but outsourcing will increase as enterprises try to
reduce costs. Despite expecting the downturn to last until 2010, the analyst
said the effect on the IT services market will remain ‘limited’ because the
market has not been led by over investment as in the dotcom crisis.

Laura Converso, research manager of European software and services at IDC,
said: "As the European economy cools, the outsourcing segment continues to be
the growth engine of the IT services market. Even though we adjusted the growth
expected in consulting and project engagements downwards for 2008, due to the
effects of the downturn, the growth we expect in the application development
market and the estimated higher growth in the IS outsourcing market more than
offset the downward effect of the crisis."